Lloyd K, Jenkins R
Department of Health, London.
Br J Psychiatry Suppl. 1995 Apr(27):60-2.
Most mental illness is treated in primary and not secondary care settings, with depression and anxiety the commonest conditions encountered.
The paper describes on-going Department of Health initiatives to optimise the primary care of common mental illnesses such as depression.
Primary care attenders with depression are often higher consumers of general health care than non-depressed attenders. Further data will become available soon from these ongoing studies to inform the debate on the optimal use of available resources in primary care. There is a particular need to evaluate non-pharmacological interventions in primary care.
大多数精神疾病在初级而非二级医疗机构接受治疗，抑郁症和焦虑症是最常见的病症。
本文描述了卫生部正在开展的各项举措，以优化对抑郁症等常见精神疾病的初级护理。
患有抑郁症的初级护理患者通常比未患抑郁症的患者更多地使用一般医疗服务。这些正在进行的研究很快将提供更多数据，为关于初级护理中可用资源的最佳利用的辩论提供信息。尤其需要评估初级护理中的非药物干预措施。
